Spruce cone.
(02/21/23)
#tree #trees #conifer #spruce #winter #winterflora #nature #NaturePhotography #NatureMastodon #MastoArt #photography #AltText
#tree #trees #conifer #Spruce #winter #winterflora #nature #naturephotography #naturemastodon #MastoArt #photography #alttext
RT @doescience
What happens to soil when the Earth warms? With the #SPRUCE field experiment, scientists @GeorgiaTech, @floridastate, @uarizona, @PNNLab, @ORNL, & colleagues changed air and ground temperatures to study how climate change affects northern peatland soil: https://www.energy.gov/science/ber/articles/whole-ecosystem-warming-stimulates-methane-production-plant-metabolites
RT @AbioticStress
Article by Zoé Ribeyre @MessierTreeEco @ISFORT_UQO @UQO @TIPS_SPIIE @ESAEcosphere
No #StressMemory pattern was detected in #sugar #maple & white #spruce #seedlings subjected to experimental #droughts
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4332
#stressmemory #sugar #maple #Spruce #seedlings #droughts #plantsci #scicomm #climatechange #heatwaves
4. It's happening everywhere.
In 5 yrs #drought and insects killed more #spruce across #Europe than anytime in modern history.
In #Siberia, #fires burned 21 million acres in 2021—4x more than usual. Some forests are now grasslands.
In 2 years, up to 19% of all California sequoias—some alive since the reign of Julius Caesar—died in fires.
How is this happening? Heat and drought is sucking moisture from plants, pushing them past thresholds they've never experienced. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/graphics/an-illustrated-guide-to-how-heat-and-drought-are-killing-trees
#drought #Spruce #europe #siberia #fires
#December 4, 1788
#OTD Andre #Michaux made his way into #SouthCarolina by crossing the #Tugalo River.
He wrote in his #Journal:
"I recognized the #YellowRoot, #MountainLaurel, #Hydrangea, & #Hemlock #Spruce...."
It was the first time Andre saw Yellow Root (Rhododendron minus), also called the #Piedmont rhododendron, which is native to #Tennessee, #NorthCarolina, South Carolina, #Georgia, & #Alabama.
#Gardening #Garden #Gardener #GardenersofMastodon #Nature #Flowers #Botany #iamabotanist
#December #otd #michaux #southcarolina #tugalo #Journal #yellowroot #mountainlaurel #hydrangea #hemlock #Spruce #piedmont #tennessee #northcarolina #georgia #alabama #gardening #garden #gardener #gardenersofmastodon #nature #flowers #botany #iamabotanist
I like the simplicity of the "#Spruce was never sacred" take though :) Spruce is indeed a rather uninspiring tree, if you think of it ;) At least compared to #linden or #oak, spruces and fur-trees are quite boring. Pine-trees may be fun, when old and lonely, but spruces are like seagulls or pigeons of the tree world. Symmetric, boring, dispensable.
RT @pascal_frey: Spermogonia & aecia of Chrysomyxa rhododendri on Norway #spruce (Picea abies) needles. This heteroecious #rust forms uredinia & telia on alpenrose (#Rhododendron ferrugineum). La Giettaz, Savoie, FR.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/Plants_EFSA/status/1562705834538573824